WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE. His graphic novel GLOBAL FREQUENCY is being developed for television by Jerry Bruckheimer and FOX. He is the writer of the graphic novel RED, adapted into the film starring Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren. His next book is NORMAL from FSG.

links for 2006-09-17

â€œLike a focused zoologist, I kept the creatures in their natural habitat to most accurately capture their mating habits on video. These mating grounds included port-a-potties, rank, bacteria-infested, gas station restrooms and junkyards.”

Federal Communications Commissionâ€™s crackdown on indecency was temporarily halted Thursday when a U.S. Appeals Court barred the agency from imposing stricter guidelines pending a court challenge on the matter.

5 thoughts on “links for 2006-09-17”

I’m glad to see people are starting to shake the fucking haze of of their heads and realise that we (Americans) are stiffling everything we claim to be fighting for. A unique brand of doublethink that makes me wonder how many schools still require 1984 as summer reading.

Now that I’ve made the Orwell reference, I’d like to say: HAH! Take THAT, FCC! Suck it. Suck it dry.

As a Canadian who’s used to hearing the word “shit” on the radio without controversy, I find the American obsession with pretending that swearing is deviant to be strange, and more than a little creepy. They have issues.

It’s not about the swearing (well it is, but that’s ansilary), so much as it’s about the general ownership of the word “indecent,” or “obscene.” The more the current control of the FCC has the definition, the more things like swearing, and nudity are taboo, while graphic violence gets an easier pass. As sick as that may seem.